Description: With the NOL focused on containing the Darkstalker threat, it seems that a new danger has emerges to exploit the chaos. Roving gangs of thugs and bikers swarm the streets, smashing, looting, and vandalizing everything in their path. Unfortunately for them, there happens to be a veteran of such street wars lurking around ready to bring them to justice! Taking to the streets, Maki prepares to do her part in the defense of Southtown by making sure there's something for the citizens to return to!

[DANIEL]Holy shit gangers!

Thats right, six bad ass motherfuckers have listened to Kira on the television, and decided that they were bad enough dudes to beat the shit out of society. Holy Moley! Now they were in a back alleyway in Southtown. They are kicking over cans. They are making Graffiti. They are smoking the reefer. And they even kicked a stray dog that was just hanging out.

What a couple of assholes!

[MAKI]Gangbangers causing trouble?

Better call in a specialist to deal with them!

And that specialist is none other than Maki herself. Having taught meany a gangster a hard lesson with her tonfa, fists, and her feet, she's always on the prowl for any potential trouble. And it seems she's stumbled upon someone who's causing a bit of trouble. Or rather, a FEW someones.

Maki just happens upon the gang members as they kick a stray dog, causing Maki to see a lot of red, and it isn't from the color of her outfit either. Between abusing a poor animal and causing trouble, it's more than enough to make Maki mad!

"You there!" Maki yells as she points her tonfa at them, "I suggest you all move along unless you're all cruising for a bruising!" She narrows her eyes. "And trust me, I can take on several of you goons at once!"

[DANIEL]Well Maki just kicked a hornet's nest.

When she arrives, and starts threatening then? All six break away from they side to side waltzing dance and focus right on her. One even takes a puff of his roach (that's a marijuana cigarette) and points at Maki.

"Let's show her who is boss!"

The six start to spread out in a semi circle around Maki, snorting and chuckling about how bad and strong they are

[MAKI]Any ordinary civilian might have kicked the hornet's nest here, but Maki's no ordinary civilian. She's on the road to becoming the next grandmaster (or perhaps grandmistress?) of the Bushin-Ryuu style of ninjitsu. And while those gangsters may pack a punch, it ain't gonna do any good if you can't hit a moving target!

"All right, you want to do this the hard way?" Maki says with a sarcastic shrug. "I can't say I didn't warn you!" She hops a few times as if to warm up a little before getting into her fighting stance. "I love a good challenge!" With that, Maki goes for the roach smoker and attempts to grab him and throw him over her shoulders onto the ground.

Well they weren't expecting her to come back so strong. So when she does it the hard way, the poor reeferman suddenly finds himself grabbed and thrown over. He is able to roll with it, but his poor spliff does not survive.

Incensed, two gangsters walk up to Maki, on each side, and begin to jab their punches at her. The other three start pacing back and forth from the side, waiting for their opening.

[MAKI]"Smoking is really bad for your health, you know," Maki says as she gets back into her fighting stance. "Hopefully this teaches you a lesson, although I doubt it will. You gangsters never learn!"

Spinning around to face the two gangsters intent on landing a jab from both sides. Maki thinks she can take them out by knocking their hands away with her tonfa.

Boy, is she wrong.

Maki gets hit simultaneously, and unfortunately, she gets hit in both of her kidneys, causing her to reel back in pain as she places her arm across her stomach, attempting to cover both kidneys with one arm. Not that it would really do any good.

"Damn it," Maki gasps as she feels the pain surging through her like nothing else, taking a few breaths to get herself back into the fight. Gritting her teeth through the pain, Maki looks up at the nearest gangster and says, "You call THAT a strike? I'll show you something!" Then she swings her tonfa at the side of the gangster, intent on showing him what it's like to be in pain.

As Maki is caught between the two, the pair suddenly find an angry Maki rising up. As she swings her Tonfa, the poor gangster just takes it, slamming into the wall. But the problem wasn't him. It was the three other guys that were now throwing themselves into a dog pile on Maki!

[MAKI]As Maki is watching the gangster crash into the wall, she turns and spots the three other guys trying to pile atop her. "What do you think you're doing, playing rugby?" Maki asks sarcastically, waiting until the gangsters are about to pounce to roll out of the way. Leaving them with nothing but air to pounce on. With three of them occupied and another against the wall, Maki attempts to teach another gangster some manners in her own way.

Spotting a nearby garbage can, Maki leaps onto it, then uses it as a method of launching towards the gangster with her leg outstretched. Another ninja trick!

[DANIEL]As the gangers pile up, another watches as Maki leaps away, and back!

He has a knife!

But instead of stabbing Maki, he is kicked right down before he could stab her. Collapsing down in an unconcious heap, the other five start circling her, looking nervous.

[MAKI]One down and five to go. Thinning the herd.

"Unless you want to end up like your companion there," Maki says as she dusts herself off in a somewhat sarcastic manner, "I suggest you back off right now." They look nervous, yeah, but they don't seem to be intent on backing down. "Don't say I didn't warn you, but now that you've got me going, there's no stopping me until one of us is down for the count." She narrows her eyes. "And I'm not planning on taking an early nap today."

And then, Maki suddenly drops onto the ground and begins to spin around with her leg outstretched, all while balancing on the tip of her tonfa. "Bushin Senpuu Kyaku!" It's Maki's trademark move and has proven to be a great crowd control mechanic at times.

Reefer man steps in front of his buddies, throwing up his guard as she begins to spin. For the sake of the others, he takes it and goes down, falling into the trash can as she belts him silly. Gasping, the other gangers pull out their knives, and start throwing them at Maki! "We will make you nap!" They tell.

[MAKI]Maki's tonfa comes up quickly and begins deflecting the knives away. One of them grazes her arm, leaving a bit of a cut on there, but otherwise the rest of the knives are knocked away almost like it's nothing to Maki.

"Seems you never heeded your mothers when they told you not to play with knives," Maki says as she shakes her head, tsking. "If I were your mother, I'd put you over my knee and spank you until *I* couldn't sit down for a week!" She hmmphs. "But I'll just have to make do."

Stepping towards the nearest gangster, Maki lifts her right leg and attempts to drive a knee into his stomach.

That was the last word from the ganger that throws himself into Maki's leg, before he is booted away. Three more left. The trio charges at Maki, attempting to smash her with these basebats they just found over there by the dumpster. There were three of them. They wanted to all use them earlier, but there were only three, and they decided it was best to not fight over it.

[MAKI]"I wonder why," Maki comments after seeing the gangster who claimed his mother died of sadness go down. "She must not have liked how you grew up." So it's three remaining now. And they want to play baseball with Maki. Except Maki's not a baseball.

"Sorry boys, but you're all out!" Maki says as she rolls backwards, away from the incoming baseball wielding thugs. "Besides, you don't know how to wield a true melee weapon like I do!"

With that, Maki grips her tonfa with a tight grip then attempts to swing it with a LOT of force at the nearest gangster, letting her body come forward to add a little momentum to the attack.

When they are unable to hit her with bats, they at least do a good job of using them to defend themselves. The bat splinters when Maki swings her Tonfa. The two other gangsters look at each other, and nod.

Unfortunately for them, Maki's speed keeps her safe as she knocks both bats away with swift speed. "They say that things like this aren't considered to be cricket, and let me tell you, behavior like that is an insult to the game itself!" Maki says.

(In other words, she just said that what they did wasn't very sportsmanlike, and this is a primary example of it.)

The blonde-haired ninja shows little sign of slowing down, save for some sweat on her forehead as well as the injuries she's sustained during the fight. "So let's finish this up, shall we?" Attempting to use her speed to her advantage, Maki attempts to trip up the nearest gangster with a kick to his ankles.

But his objections fall on deaf ears, as Maki flies out to trip him. He stumbles, but does not fall. Scowling, he actually drops his baseball bat. "Hey! Why don't you finish this up!" He yells. And while his buddies watch, the guy tries to shove Maki to the ground!

[MAKI]"Not everyone knows what it is," Maki comments as she watches the gangster get back up. "I only learned it because I took a trip to England and happened to learn about it thanks to the local television. But now is not the time for that."

Trying to shove Maki, that's real gangster-like. Unfortunately, all Maki has to do is step out of the way of the incoming shove and shake her head. "Really, now? Can't you actually put an effort in to fight for real?" As if to emphasize her point, Maki suddenly runs onto the nearby alley wall and then springs off of it, bringing her foot in the direction of the gangster that just missed her.

As the shove fails, and Maki dives back in, the gangsters scatter, barely clearing out of the way as she slams down. One of the gangers goes to try and grab her by her arms. Should he get a grip? Another one will try and help lift her up, and throw her into a dumpster!

Unfortunately, while Maki doesn't see herself as trash, it seems the thugs do... and they successfully wind up dumping her in the dumpster. In doing so they hit her back against the edge of the dumpster, which really hurts.

"Damn it," Maki says as she pulls herself out of the garbage heap and wipes herself off. "This is truly embarrassing!"

In spite of the injury to her back, Maki still isn't about to let this go so easily. She glares at the punk who threw her into the trash and then attempts to strike him in the side of the head with her tonfa.

Hooting and hollering and slapping their knees, they all were so distracted that when Maki comes out, the ganger doesn't noticed until he is too late. He gives a look mid laugh at Maki?

And he is punched right out.

The other two stop laughing, and one still has a bat. He starts going at Maki, and trying to whack her again and again. The other one? Was pushing the dumpster at Maki to try and squish her against the wall of the alleyway!

[MAKI]They want to crush her against the wall? A human steamroller or something?

Not this time.

Injured as she may be, Maki still has her agility within her and manages to dodge those remaining gang members. "OK, boys, I think this fight has gone on long enough." She twirls her tonfa a couple of times. "I think I'll have to finish this up." With that, Maki attempts to grab one punk and then throw him onto the ground while striking the other one with her tonfa.

They can point and blame later. As the dumpster smashes into the wall, the poor ganger is grabbed, and thrown at the other man. He fortunately evades, letting his partner hit the garbage cans. Armed with the bat still, he lunges at Maki, swinging the bat as hard as he can.

Maki knocks away the baseball bat with little effort on her part. "OK, I'm done playing around." She wipes her tonfa on her clothing before pointing at the gang member. "It's time to teach you a painful lesson that, hopefully, should teach you and your cronies not to mess around!"

And then, Maki suddenly dashes at the gang member. If she lands her first hit, she'll throw a couple more strikes with her tonfa, then throw a kick or two, and then finish off with her flying kick from before!

When Maki slips around the bar with her Tonfa, she opens up a six pack of pure Nippon asskicking right into that poor gangers soul. By the time she is done? The man is more hamburger than ganger.

MAKI WINS

TONFALITY

As to what these gangers were up to, the only clue from the moaning gangers is some funny maps that were scattered around... that had houses circled, and lines going to the Majigen Embassy downtown Southtown. That's where Jedah was...

[MAKI]Picking up one of the maps, Maki glances over them and frowns a little as she gets a look at the embassy being marked.

"Gang members going after an embassy?" Maki mutters, before scowling. "There's definitely something not right here." She glares at the punks lying unconscious on the ground and says, "They'll be here to pick you up soon, and it's a good thing Southtown has good medical technology." Before taking off running to find more clues.

COMBATSYS: Maki has ended the fight here.

Log created on 19:15:46 05/05/2020 by Daniel, and last modified on 17:39:05 05/07/2020.